When developing your project, it’s important to pay attention in meeting the client needs. These needs are related to a business goal that has not been yet accomplished. As a professional in the eLearning field it’s your job to ask the right questions, and offer the best solution. Sometimes it’s a course, sometimes it isn’t. There’s nothing more negative than receiving a feedback like this: “How is this course going to help my sales team sell more products? I can’t see it!” or “This is not what I really wanted”. If this has ever happened to you, believe me, they’ll never come back again.
Another thing to pay attention to are the learning objectives. A good practice before starting the development phase is to revise the provided content. Check if all the content covers the aim of the course and if it will be enough to drive the learners through achieving the learning outcomes.
In order to create the best learning experience you’ll have to work closely with SMEs. They will help you create meaningful content, which means useful to the learners. Do you know what’s their motivation? Is it to improve their performance in order to earn bonuses? Is it the opportunity to get promoted? No matter what the motivation is, the important thing is that they want to cover a specific gap. Does your solution cover this gap?
Go beyond a page-turner course; create self-assessments that involve evaluating the highest levels of Blooms’ Taxonomy. Think out of the box and create a learning experience where the learner can interact with the content and their brains. Challenge them to face up real scenarios that require retrieving the information they have just learnt and put them into practice.
Providing a safe environment where users can learn through their mistakes and understand the consequences of their choices will help them recall the information in real environments. In other words, to improve their performance.